In Falling Shadows, a lone man walks in the forest towards the hunting camp where his family has taken refuge to escape the upheaval caused by a widespread power failure. He knows he is threatened. One day, having lost his way, a twelve-year-old boy, mysteriously fearless and familiar, calls out to him. The unusual duo will have to face the hostility of the wilderness and thwart the offensive groups that now inhabit the woods. This is Québec writer Christian Guay-Poliquin's much anticipated third instalment in the series of gripping post-apocalyptic novels initiated with Running on Fumes and prolonged by the international bestseller The Weight of Snow, both translated by Governor General's Award winner David Homel and published by Talonbooks in 2016 and 2019. The Weight of Snow was long-listed for the 2020 Sunburst Award and was translated into fifteen languages. Throughout these novels, Guay-Poliquin has developed a unique storytelling craft; his narratives are grounded in the demands and details of daily life and in a world ripe with experience. Adventurous and cleverly assembled, Falling Shadows questions the meaning of community and revisits the thrilling excitement associated with the wilderness and survival classics like McCarthy's The Road and King's The Stand.
"The poems in Tracery enact a lyric condensation. Many of them were written in transit: on the bus, on a bicycle, on foot, in the endless to and fro of work life. Their lyric brevity allowed composition directly in the brain, or quick jottings in a pocket notebook, primarily governed by the music of reason - "the ear's judgement" (Joachim du Bellay), the "natural music" of poetry (Eustache Deschamps). A major feature of this work is its incorporation and reworking - a translation - of other works of western literature and philosophy across the span of its brief, localized history. These are poems that barge into the arena of classic and modernist literary works with little regard for what is generally regarded as genius, with contempt for the ever-present misogyny and gender segregation of our collective past, with an ever-present critique, but also with a constantly renewable sense of wonder and humility. Written in a time of plague, through dreams and daily life, these are poems to be enjoyed by anyone who observes events occurring in time, and then wonders at them."--
Winner of 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for DramaDorothy Dittrich's The Piano Teacher is a play about loss, love, friendship, and the healing power of music. When Erin, a classical pianist, experiences the loss of the life she knew, she meets an unconventional piano teacher who gives her new hope for the future.
By the author of the award-winning Maleficium, Medusa is an incendiary tale of women's body shame and men's body shaming, phallocratic oppression, and the power of femininity, adapting the famous story of Medusa.
All Things Become Alive by the Touch of the Parabola is the first full account of the journey by surrealist artist Wolfgang Paalen and poet Alice Rahon down the Northwest Coast. It weaves together travelogue, biography, Northwest Coast Indigenous cultures, art histories, anthropology, and an account of museum collecting during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Two young-adult plays exploring anxiety and depression, the complexities of gender dynamics, bullying, and the challenges that arise when the lines between friendship and romance are blurred.
Set in a school facing the real-life challenges of immigration, income inequality, and fears of violence in our schools, The In-Between is a realistic, relatable exploration of the complex social circumstances students must navigate in contemporary schools.
Flying Red Horse is a book of lyric poetry about fatherhood and masculinity, and the conditions of whiteness that pressure those terms. It looks at the precarity of relationships between people and place in diverse geographic and racial contexts; it addresses the crisis of climate change; and it considers parental connections to children in uncertain global circumstances.
A rigorously feminist and poetic record of thinking through trauma as it unfolds and a document of life under military lockdown, "a book like a cluster of thorns with some few fragrant petals caught in them."
A Future Perfect is a collection of constraint-based poems written in the future-perfect tense, used as a way of bending time and playing with non-linearity. They challenge the "self" imagined as a unified monolith by pulling language apart, dissecting idioms and speech in new and unconventional ways.
Humour allows the exploration of Indigenous relationships with settler law.
From one of Canadäs most influential poets, poems written in response to the discovery of letters by her father. These poems explore a sense of place and home on Canadäs West Coast now on the brink of global climate change. ¿There Then¿ permeates any ¿Here Now¿ of immigrant consciousness and highlights the impermanent quality of ¿home.¿
A work exploring sibling and romantic love, and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another
It¿s May 1922, wedding preparations are in full swing, and old memories, past desires, and big regrets threaten to turn the big celebration into a big melee.
Explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, and asks what resistance to the tenor of these out-of-joint times might look like.
Written in sixty short epistolary chapters, award winning author M.A.C. Farrant¿s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society.
Maya is a hikikomori, an extreme recluse who hasn¿t left her bedroom in five years, spending all her time in Virtual Reality. So her father hires an actor to befriend her online and entice her back into the real world. How? By visiting the scariest place on earth, Aokigahara, the ¿Suicide Forest.¿ Can virtual worlds offer real solutions? Is an honourable death better than a meaningless life? Kuroko is a story about a family who are worlds apart, separated by pain, from past and present, alone in the real and virtual worlds, each unsure of the way back home.
Life-long poem project from the Governor General's Award¿winning former parliamentary poet laureate.
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